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Sunday, August 25, 2013

8-25-13 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.

Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.:





Ten minute drawing. Rahm puts fox in charge of the chickens.
   
Rahm put indicted Ohio money laundry man on city’s pension boards.
  The Laundry Man and The Mayor. If you live in Chicago and don’t know the name Amer Ahmad, start paying attention. He was Rahm Emanuel’s comptroller. He resigned a month ago to “return to the private sector.”  He was indicted last week by a federal grand jury in Ohio for bribery, fraud and money laundering while serving as Ohio’s deputy treasurer. In the day’s since his resignation there has bee


An exchange. Bonuses to principals.
Fred, One of these principals is a good friend of mine. She works seven days a week to make sure that her students are successful. We both worked as teachers in CPS and we earned our Type 75s together. She was a phenomenal reading teacher too. To label all of these principals as clowns is unfair. The $10,000 she’s getting will not even begin to compensate her for the hundreds of extra hours she


8-24-13 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Saturday coffee.    Martin Luther King, James Baldwin and my dad at a fundraiser in LA for the Southern Civil Rights Movement, around 1965. My dad is the guy sitting while James Baldwin is intro ducing Dr. King from the microphone. Somebody went to find a clothes hangar  and some aluminum foil to try